Depth-of-interaction compensation using a focused-cut scintillator for a pinhole gamma camera

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 3 PART 1, 2011, Pages 634-638

  Alhassen, Fares ^a   Kudrolli, Haris ^b   Singh, Bipin ^b   Kim, Sangtaek ^a   Seo, Youngho ^a   Gould, Robert G ^a   Nagarkar, Vivek V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical applications of nuclear radiation; biomedical nuclear imaging; scintillation detectors; single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR RADIATION; BIOMEDICAL NUCLEAR IMAGING; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CONTINUOUS SCINTILLATORS; DEPTH OF INTERACTIONS; ELECTRON MULTIPLYING CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FIELD OF VIEWS; FULL WIDTH HALF MAXIMUM; GAMMA CAMERAS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IMAGE MAGNIFICATION; LASER-CUT; MOLECULAR PATHWAYS; PARALLAX ERROR; PINHOLE COLLIMATORS; PINHOLE GEOMETRY; SCINTILLATOR MATERIALS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION; SMALL ANIMAL; SPECT SYSTEM; SYSTEM RESOLUTION;

ANIMALS; ASTROPHYSICS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DETECTORS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG THERAPY; ERRORS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; ISOTOPES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PINHOLE CAMERAS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 79959373659     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2136386     Document Type: Article

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